ESCP Europe

Item type

Ebook

Language

English

Publication year

2018

Note

• ACCESS limit : 1 simultaneous with VLEbooks

Subjects

LABOR ECONOMICS - PROFESSION - MOTIVATION - QUALITY OF WORK LIFE

"Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After one million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer. There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln."

Chapter 1 What Is a Bullshit Job? Chapter 2 What sorts of Bullshit Jobs are there ? Chapter 3 Why Do Those in Bullshit Jobs Regularly Report Themselves Unhappy? Chapter 4 What Is It Like to Have a Bullshit Job? Chapter5 Why Are Bullshit Jobs Proliferating? Chapter 6 Why Do We as a Society Not Object to the Growth of Pointless Employment? Chapter 7 What Are the Political Effects of Bullshit Jobs, and Is There Anything That Can Be Done About This Situation?.